Audacity Forum

"Preview" is only available for "Generate" and "Process" type plug-ins, and only available for plug-ins that have a GUI. I'm not entirely certain what you are trying to do. Do you want an effect that can play a sine tone at the "spectral" centre frequency when...

Up-vote for " Repeat " effect. Once you have a full bar, you can repeat the bar to make a phrase, then repeat the phrase, and so on. One thing to watch out for is that digital audio works in "samples" (typically 44100 samples per second). If you have a tempo of say 120 bpm, that'...

To use "Preview" the plug-in must be either a Generate or Process type plug-in, and there must be at least one control so that a GUI is displayed. If there is no GUI then the plug-in is automatically applied to the selection with no option to preview. I'm not certain what you are trying to...

Do you have any space on the computer's local drive? Currently you are trying to write to a network drive and that is causing the problem.

Does your computer's CPU have SSE2 ?
(If you don't know, Belarc Advisor may be able to tell you.)

If it does, you may be able to go as high as Audacity 2.1.3. I think that was the last version to officially support Windows XP.

Have you ever heard of DLL HELL?

Not unless you want to get heavily into macro code. It is "possible" to create labels with the frequency data, but it is lengthy and complex. Alternatively there's this "hack". The labels will look weird when you create them, and they don't select frequencies, but you can convert...

(tick "version 3 syntax" box) A little tip: You can force the Nyquist Prompt to use the more modern syntax (version 3 or later) by adding this line of the code: ;version 4 (You could also use ";version 3" but you may as well enable all new features). Also, just as a "heads ...

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Sun Dec 13, 2020 11:45 pm

It shows up as a blank piece of paper.

That's normal for Mac. Follow the instructions that Trebor linked to.

Is the instrument signal level light on the Solo illuminating?
Have you checked your guitar, battery and lead by playing through an amp?